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...went to Vichy France, as head of a privately sponsored Emergency Relief Committee ostensibly organized to provide money for blacklisted intellectuals, in reality operated for 24 months as an underground railroad, spiriting some 1,500 people out of the country (among them: Painter Marc Chagall, Physicist Otto Meyerhoff) until authorities at last expelled Fry; of a heart attack; in Easton, Conn...
Something for Baltimore. Archetype of U.J.A.'s philanthropists is U.J.A.'s new fund-drive chairman, Baltimore Builder Joseph Meyerhoff, 61. Born in Russia, Meyerhoff went to the University of Maryland Law School, set up shop as a house builder in 1920. During the Depression, he eked out a living as a small-scale real estate operator. Now he runs the Joseph Meyerhoff Corp., a firm that specializes in "community development" projects, averages nearly 600 housing units a year, has helped build Baltimore's four largest shopping centers...
...Meyerhoff spends nearly as much time on civic causes as he does on construction: he is president of the city's Associated Jewish Charities (which last year raised $3,100,000 for worthy causes in both Baltimore and Israel), presides over the State Planning Commission. Although he builds no houses in Israel, Meyerhoff is also president of the Palestine Economic Corp., which has raised $11 million for private investment in Israeli industry since 1948. "In my family," he says, "we took for granted that being a Jew and being interested in what was first Palestine and is now Israel...
IRVING E. MEYERHOFF Chicago...
When Contributing Editor Michael Demarest and Researcher Jane Meyerhoff were working on the cover story, they were astonished at the extraordinary number of people interviewed who spoke of the toymaker with the same warm affection that children have for Santa Claus. It was hard for them to believe that one man could have so many-and such distinguished-friends. But since the story appeared, Marx has received more than 1,000 letters from politicians and priests, generals and industrialists, grand dames and schoolboys...